Abu Muharab al-Urduni

Abu Muharab al-Urduni (1972-7 July 2008) was a Jordanian al-Qaeda in Iraq leader and a field commander of al-Qaeda foreign fighters during the Iraq War.

Biography
Sayef Halabi was born in 1972 in Jordan to a Sunni Muslim family, and he originally wanted to work as an engineer. However, he was radicalized by the teachings of Abdullah Azzam, and he decided to head to Afghanistan in 1990, where he trained at the al-Farouq training camp with al-Qaeda. Halabi took on the kunya of "Abu Muharab al-Urduni" and pledged to wage holy war against non-Muslims. Osama bin Laden sent him to Iraq as a field commander during the Iraq War, and he was given command of a large unit of foreign fighters that resisted the United States. al-Urduni was an active fighter with his men, and in 2007 he took part in the heavy fighting against the US Marine Corps in Diyala Governorate during Operation Canned Heat. al-Urduni was killed when the United States launched a Hellfire missile attack on a convoy of ten al-Qaeda vehicles in the western desert of Anbar Governorate in the summer of 2008.